Johns v. Brinker

The opinion of the court wag'delivered by

Egan, J.

This is an action to recover damages for an alleged malicious, wanton, and inhuman assaulting and beating the plaintiff, and for defaming and slandering her. The particulars of the alleged defamation are, however, not charged, and that branch of the case seems to have been practically abandoned. The argument of counsel, that the introduction in the trial of this cause of evidence of witnesses tending to affect the reputation of the plaintiff can form an element of damage and a basis of recovery in the present case, is wholly untenable. The case…